Information Exposure Affecting mediawiki package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MEDIAWIKI-370500
- published20 Apr 2017
- disclosed20 Apr 2017
Introduced: 20 Apr 2017
CVE-2016-6335 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:14.04 mediawiki.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mediawiki package and not the mediawiki package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
MediaWiki before 1.23.15, 1.26.x before 1.26.4, and 1.27.x before 1.27.1 does not generate head items in the context of a given title, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a parse action to api.php.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6335
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6335
- https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2016-August/000195.html
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139565
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139570
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369613